Teledyne to Acquire FLIR Systems in $8 Billion Deal
on Teledyne’s last close, and represents a premium of 28.1% for FLIR shareholders to the stock’s Thursday close.Teledyne and FLIR sell cameras and sensor systems.“Our technologies and products are uniquely complementary with minimal overlap, having imaging sensors based on different semiconductor technologies for different wavelengths,” Teledyne Executive Chairman Robert Mehrabian said.The deal is expected to close in the middle of 2021 and add to Teledyne earnings in the first full calendar year after the acquisition.FLIR shares jumped 25.4% to $54.39 in premarket trading on Monday
Seabed Imaging Re-imagined
design, testing and manufacturing support from Sonardyne, with a key focus on ensuring the system was smaller, lighter and less power hungry so that it could be used on long-endurance AUVs.At its core is a pair of high-dynamic range scientific CMOS (complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor) cameras, each with 2,560 x 2,160 pixel resolution – double that of SeaXerocks. These are mounted in a 4000 m-rated titanium housing, optimized for AUV mounting, that also includes low-power electronics to control the lasers, strobe illumination, communication, data acquisition and processing
EOMAP Wins Funding for Next-Gen Satellite-Derived Bathymetry
bathymetry is hampered by the heavy computing power required to process the large amounts of data now available.The new funding will allow EOMAP to push ahead with new SDB procedures based on high-performance scientific computing employing field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). FPGAs are semiconductor devices that can be programmed by the user. They are currently used in applications such as automotive and communication technologies. Their big benefits are their higher speeds and lower energy consumption compared to normal processors. However, the optimal interaction of FPGA and CPU processing
Awards Ceremony Recognizes NRL Researchers
unmanned systems, just to name a few but highly relevant applications for the Navy and Department of Defense. Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering Dr. James B. Delehanty is recognized for spearheading the implementation of nanoparticle materials in cellular applications (specifically, semiconductor quantum dots (QDs)) for the purposes of cellular labeling, imaging and sensing. Understanding the interaction of nanoparticle materials with living systems is a critical endeavor for the Navy and Department of Defense, and the larger scientific community, as nanoparticles find increasingly more
Klein Hires Alvanos as Sonar Sales Engineer
L-3 Klein Associates, Inc. announced the addition of Tyson Alvanos to the Klein marketing and technical sales group. Alvanos joins Klein with ten years of experience as a senior technical sales engineer in the semiconductor, solar LED and medical product applications fields. Tyson will focus on supporting Klein’s international sales efforts. Tyson’s extensive technical background, training and knowledge with sonar imaging, ultrasound devices and transducers will provide customers with expert technical support for the complete line of Klein sonar products. l-3com.com/klein
Pablo Luther Joins Liquid Robotics as CFO
Robotics, Mr. Luther will be responsible for the finance, human resources and information technology organizations. His position is effective immediately. Luther has over 25 years of experience at both private companies as well as public Fortune 500 companies, spanning the software, networking and semiconductor industries. He has held CFO and COO-level positions in Silicon Valley start-ups including Kasenna, Netfish Technologies and eFinance Corporation, all of which culminated in M&A transactions. Prior to that, Luther spent six years at Stormedia, Inc. (which he helped take public on the NASDAQ)
ABB HVDC Technology Aids Offshore Wind Power Transmission
is a manifestation of HVDC that helps to address the needs of underground and subsea transmission and ABB leads the way in this technology, having delivered more than 20 such converter stations. The advance was made possible by developments in converter technology, a new valve concept, enhanced semiconductor performance and advanced control systems. It will provide further impetus to the evolution of multi-terminal systems and interconnected HVDC grids, where ABB recently removed a major technology stumbling block with the announcement of its hybrid HVDC breaker development. HVDC Light continues
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